Feeder for thrashing-machines



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M. O. DILLMAN. FEEDER FOR THRASHING MACHINES. No. 265,769. ,41, Patented Oct. l0 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Danica..

MARSHALL (l. DILLMAN, OF ORLAND, CALIFORNLA.

FEEDER FOR THRASHlNG-M ACHlNES.

.SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,769, dated October 10, 1882,

Application filed April 152, 1882. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MAasI-IALL O. DILLMAN, of Orland, in the county of Oolusa and State of California, have invented certain new and usefulImprovementsin Feeders for Thrashing- Machines; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description oftheinvention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in apparatus for automatically shaking or spreading out bundles of grain and feeding them into a thrashingmachine; and the invention consists in novel features of construction and combination and arrangement of parts, all as will be hereinafter fully described, and set forth in the claims hereto annexed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a longitudinal vertical section; Fig.2, a side elevation; Fig. 3, a top view or plan.

In the drawings, A represents a frame having a bottom to it, with a roller, a, at one end and a corresponding roller, 1), at the opposite end, around which rollers extends an endless belt or carrier, B. The frame A is provided with casings G 0, having vertical slots 0 0, through which project the ends of shafts D E, which are mounted in boxes or bearings 01 6, connected to the free ends of the side bars, D E, arranged on the opposite sides of the frame A. The side bars E are fulcrumed at their rear ends to the sides of the frame A, and to their front ends are fulcrumed the bars D,having at each rear end slotted guides d, through which and the bars E pass guide-pinsff, provided with screw-threaded endsff, for the reception of the hand or thumb screw-nuts), by which, when adjusted, they are secured in position. The side bars E are provided at their front ends with downwardly-projecting rack-bars F F, passing through the guides g and engaging with pinions G G, mounted on the transverse shaft H, having at one end an operatin g-crank, h, whereby said pinions can he revolved, thus raisin g or lowering the rack-bars and the side bars, D E, carrying the shafts D E, and thereby permitting their being simu'ltaneously adjusted and secured in any desired position by a pawl, h, engaging the teeth of one of the pinions G. The shaftsD E'are provided with curved arms or spreaders t, which tend to separate and shake or spread out the bundles of grain, and also facilitate their forward movement in connection with the endless belt or carrier B. The armed or spreader shaft D, through the medium of the side bars D and the slotted guides and guide-pins, is adapted to have a separate adjustment with reference to the armed or spreader shaft E, and both shafts are adapted to be vertically adjusted simultaneously with reference to the endless belt or carrier B for regulating the feed. The ends of the shaft E are provided with sprocketwheels, over which pass endless drive chains or belts, that pass over sprocketwheels on shafts D and 1, the latter shaft being driven by any suitable connection with the thrashing-machine, thus communicating motion to the roller on shaft I and also the armed or spreader shafts D E by the connecting-bands and sprocketwheels above described.

The operation is as follows: The apparatus being suitably located, so as to deliver into the thrashing-machinefromoueofits ends,the bundles of grain after the bands are out are laid on the belt or carrier B at its other end. The movement ofthe belt or carrier carries the bundle lengthwise along the frame under the shaft D,the arms or spreaders of which tend to shake out and separate the bundle, the same operation being repeated by the armed or spreader shaft E, the arms of which serving to assist in feeding the grain forward, as well as separating and shaking it out loose in a tit condition shafts, and toothed ruck-bars and pinions for D E, substantially in the manner as and for to simultaneously adjusting the side bars and the purpose herein shown and described.

armed shafts, substantially in the manner here- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as in shown, and for the purpose specified. my own I have hereto affixed my signature in 5 2. The combination of the fulcrumed side presence of two Witnesses.

' bars E E, having boxes 0, the side burs D MARSHALL O. DILLMAN.

D, iulernmed to the bars E E, and having VVit-nesses: boxes d and slotted. guides d, the guide-pins 'lHouAs NIoHoLLs, ff, and securing devices, and the armed shafts JOSEPH S. GREEN. 

